Over the last few weeks I’ve been reviewing the cost and affordability of our Community Based healthcare services, which are often given free or at a heavily subsidised, low cost to the patient. During this review, it has become obvious that if we want these programmes to be sustainable then we will have to ration [...]
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Affordability, Rationing and Aid
Posted in Business of Health Care, Charis - IMC Lira, International Medical Foundation, Primary Healthcare, tagged Bill Gates, Healthcare Budget, Peter Singer, PHC, Primary health care, Primary Healthcare, Rationing on February 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
5,800 Mums and 100,000 Babies die every year in Uganda
Posted in Suubi Trust, tagged 15 % Plus, African Union, Healthcare Budget, MCH, SRH on August 1, 2010 | Comments Off
16 women die every day in Uganda while giving birth or during pregnancy; that’s 5,800 deaths each year. Many more suffer from complications and childbirth injuries such as VVF. Each year 100,000 babies die at birth, that’s 76 deaths per 1,000 live births. The shame of these numbers is that these deaths are, on the [...]
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